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Nirvanix Announces General Availability of Its Storage Delivery Service

Posted on: Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 12:00 CDT

After successful testing at more than 80 beta customer sites, Nirvanix today announced general availability of its Storage Delivery Service optimized for media applications. Nirvanix also announced beta availability of its integrated media transcoding, image manipulation, and file search services, which further enable developers to shorten time-to-market for rich media applications.

"We have seen dramatic uptake of the service in a short amount of time," said Patrick Harr, CEO of Nirvanix. "This is a reflection of the rapid growth of media applications and the need to provide internet-scale storage infrastructure without the cost and complexity of building it in-house."

Nirvanix Storage Delivery Service, now with integrated media transcoding, image manipulation, and file search services, enables developers to create the richest media applications, significantly reduce cost, and provide best end-user experience. "Nirvanix is truly changing the game with its next-generation Storage Delivery Service for media applications and its Internet Media File System geo-node architecture," said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst of Taneja Group. "Nirvanix is representative of a new category called a Storage Delivery Network, where high performance Internet storage is available on demand, globally, to web applications."

New Functionality: Media Transcoding, Image Manipulation and File Search

With the general availability of its Storage Delivery Service, Nirvanix is also introducing new beta functionality and additional developer support:

Media Transcoding: Two new web service API methods, one for video and one for audio, allow developers to take media files stored in the system in a particular format and create new files in different formats or codecs. For example, the end-user of a Nirvanix-enabled application could upload a high-definition video from her home and later view it on her cell phone or PDA at a lower frame rate, smaller size, and different codec or file format.

Image Manipulation: In addition to providing a method to resize images, Nirvanix is introducing new methods for rotating and flipping those images. Now, Nirvanix eliminates the complexity and processing required to create web photo albums with thumbnails and rotated/flipped pictures.

File Search: This service is implemented with three new API calls that allow programmers to search for files based on file system, metadata, or tag information. Developers can locate files for end-users without the cost of downloading them or the complexity of storing metadata to search locally.

Sideloading: Similar to uploading, sideloading allows files to be uploaded to the Nirvanix system directly from a hosted URL. Instead of having to download a file from its original location on the web to a client and then uploading it to Nirvanix, applications can direct Nirvanix to directly upload the file from its original location on the web. This single transfer is faster, simpler, and saves on bandwidth costs.

Ruby Gem: In addition to having reference applications and SDKs available for the most popular development environments, Nirvanix now offers a new nvx-sds gem library to the Ruby community to accelerate development. The library showcases integration of Ruby applications to the Nirvanix SDS, including the ability to fully manage files and folders, perform account operations, and manage metadata/tags.

Nirvanix Storage Delivery Service

Nirvanix provides businesses with next-generation storage-as-a-service (SaaS), and is addressing the challenges associated with the explosive growth of user-generated content and the corresponding demand for storage. The company's Internet-scale storage delivery service, powered by the company's patent-pending Internet Media File System (IMFS), empowers developers with a powerful, yet affordable solution for storing and distributing user-generated content and other digital media. It provides dynamic load balancing for peak performance; intelligent uploading/downloading to accelerate access; clustered architecture for enhanced data protection; and global namespace for unlimited scalability. The platform is fully redundant in every layer of its infrastructure, includes RAID-6 data protection, is supported by 24/7 operations, and comes with the industry's first guaranteed service level agreement (SLA). The service is priced at $0.18 per gigabyte per month of storage and $0.18 per gigabyte transferred. Pricing includes basic support and a guaranteed 99.9% SLA. Additional customer support options are available at $160 per month for enhanced level, and $600 per month for premium. Media processing, image manipulation and search services will be priced as they become generally available.

About Nirvanix

With over 80 customers, including some of the world's leading media application vendors, Nirvanix is the premier provider of Internet storage optimized for media. The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Service (SDS) dramatically shortens time-to-market, reduces costs, and provides flexibility and control for business integrating Internet-scale online storage to their applications. Founded in 2007, Nirvanix is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California. For more information about the company and its services, visit www.nirvanix.com.

Source: Business Wire

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